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Description: | An incomplete and damaged cast copper-alloy hooked tag dating to the post-medieval period (as Read 2008, 99; refs. 369-372). The tag has a circular body and a trapezoidal attachment loop; the hook is now only vestigial. The attachment loop has a missing element from one quarter. It is asymmetrical (cf. ibid., ref. 371). The circular tag has a beaded border and two raised perpendicular lines dividing it into quarters. Elsewhere this has been described as a cross where each arm terminates in a trefoil. The field within each quarter would theoretically have been perforated with four circles: one towards the small central 'boss', three around the circumference - a total of sixteen perforations for the object, with some now blocked in by corrosion product, and others perhaps never pierced. The reverse is flat, carrying the border's beads and the perforations mentioned in silhouette; a large proportion of it is covered in an accretion. The metal has corroded to a mid-green colour, covered in lighter corrosion product.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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